Elevated high-sensitive cardiac troponin T levels are associated with low skeletal muscle mass in abdominal surgical oncology patients at risk for coronary artery disease

Int J Cardiol. 2015 Jul 15:191:229-30. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.05.035. Epub 2015 May 8.

¹ Department of Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Surgery, St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Surgery, St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Clinical Chemistry, St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Radiology, St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Cardiology, St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁷ Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.

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Keywords: Cachexia; Cancer; Cardiac troponin; Muscle mass; Myocardial injury; Sarcopenia.

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